Month: March 2015

The British government said Wednesday it was opening talks on plans to build the world’s first man-made tidal lagoon in Wales to generate green energy. The Severn Estuary holds the second highest tidal range in the world and within this… Read More ›

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries successfully completed a ground demonstration testing of Wireless Power Transmission Technology–a new technology presently under development to serve as the core technology of the Space Solar Power Systems (SSPS). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it used microwave technology to… Read More ›

A major challenge facing full electric vehicles is the limited range between charges. An EU-backed project has designed a new-generation battery that can potentially power a car for up to 500 km, instead of the current 150 km, before needing… Read More ›

We thought this article by Mark Shwartz was the clearest attempt to describe the fundamental energy analysis that should be used in all policy making, sustainability research, and financial decisions. “Put simply, we need to ‘spend’ energy to ‘make’ energy,”… Read More ›

(By Kerry Sheridan at Physorg) Florida is widely known as the Sunshine State but when it comes to harnessing solar power, lots of customers find it just doesn’t pay because electricity is already cheap and there is little incentive to… Read More ›

Tesla now has 2,000 superchargers spread across 400 different stations. The chargers are solar-powered, free to use, and, as unveiled in 2012, part of a new electric network. There are now four times as many superchargers as there were at… Read More ›

We can’t help thinking that this is the most interesting alternative energy since sliced bread. Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (ASX:CWE) is focused on developing and commercialising its 100% owned CETO wave energy technology which is capable of producing zero-emission power… Read More ›

Game-over Some people might think that the recent drop in oil price is bad for the solar industry, that it’ll slow down investment and reduce demand for clean energy. There might be some truth to that in the short-term, but… Read More ›